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1829 April 10
J.B. to Edw W.

To provide in a manner (it pains me to think
how imperfect) for the contingency of Colonel decease.
I accompany this with copy of a few recent testaments
in manuscript in addition to those which are in print, for
the purpose of conveying a conception of the the
position it seems at present occupy in civilized society.

Not having had the great fortune to be known to you (between
70 and 80 years ago at Westminster School I was not unknown to your ancestors).

I imply this much as a useful of at least if not an
alltogether requisite succedaneum. The idea of a man
who as a means of honest livelyhood is soliciting the some
such situation as that of a country Schoolmaster will apt to
be to view the imagination by such documents,
But judgment as will in your case be strong enough
but against errors from that source, sound judgment will be your
sufficient security.

You will have heard from Mr Mill and others
that remuneration in a pecuniary shape is out of the question
in any instance.

Whatever is done for the benefit of British
through your means it is by the you yourself by means the weight of
the authority of your name that it must be done. It will
not in any member the has a is belong
to him for at present has any the least prospect of having
have any power who to the intellectual ability adds the desire
to make any considerable give support effectual aid to
those your so generous and enlightened endeavours. By what
you have done already you have placed yourself at a height
which no such mind as Mr Peels, is or will ever be
able to reach. Your endeavours and his are in a state
of diametrical opposites: yours are As to the rule of action
your endeavours are to render it knowable: his to keep it from
being so: As to the justice
your endeavours are to
render it acceptable: his
to keep it inaccessible.
I have no quarrel with
him: antipathy has no part in the repair I am thus making in relation to him. But in addition to all public grounds I have seen private one, composed
of an intervention I have had with him in an epistolary way on a variety of subjects. He is a genuine disciple of Lord Eldon: and is
either a dupe or an accomplice
of those irreconcilable means of
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Identifier: | JB/010/177/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1829-04-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	177	Info in main headings field	jb to ld w. bentinck
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1828
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	3613
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